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The Russian Federal Space Agency has announced new, tentative dates for the launch of two GLONASS satellite triplets.
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Another Galileo agreement signed

The Indian Navy will get a dedicated communication satellite, the country’s defence minister A. K. Antony said.
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Inmarsat Earnings, Revenue Fall In First Half Of 2006
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Globalstar replenishment launch successful
Lockheed Martin Corporation (Space Systems) results 2006
China Plans Satellite Navigation System
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SkyVision expands NSS-10 capacity

The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) mission, developed by NASA’s Langley Research Center and CNES has fired its lasers into the Earth’s atmosphere over two billion times since its April 2006 launch.
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Forecast International predicts 300 new satellites by 2016
European companies to build, launch two Arabsats
BAE Systems-led team to work on Novel Satellite Communications
Fifth Ariane 5 of this year delivered to Arianespace
SSC gets Galileo RF license until 2037
Infrastructure contract extensions for Lockheed, Boeing
International Datacasting Wins Contract From Shin Broadband For New Asia IPTV Service
ViaSat selects Tom Moore to lead Ka-band broadband venture

COM DEV USA, LLC, a subsidiary of COM DEV International Ltd., has been awarded a contract valued in excess of US$7 million to supply passive microwave equipment for a U.S. Government space programme.
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WildBlue upgrades network, increases capacity by over 31 percent
WorldSpace results 2006
Telesat completes transfer of its interests in Telstar 10
Norsat Introduces New Ku-Band Transmitter
Nickname for greenhouse gas measuring satellite selected
SpaceX Test Launch Falls Short
Telenor Developing Maritime Broadband Communications Service
Boeing completes successful FAB-T Preliminary Design Review

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced it has agreed with Orbital Sciences Corporation to supply Proximity Link System (PLS) components that will guide Orbital’s Cygnus Spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on nine re-supply missions for NASA.
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No mist in space?
ND SatCom Offers SkyWAN Platform For Government, Defense Applications
Launch updates: Ariane 5 ECA, M-V-7
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reaches planned flight path
SingTel and ProtoStar announce joint TT&C and capacity agreements
Sea Launch prepares next launch
Ciel II shipped to Baikonur
Next solar storm cycle will start late

Over the last ten years or so, about 30 million people have abandoned cable television services and made the switch to the over-the-air cable satellite TV service providers. There are obviously some very good reasons why so many people have made this change, much to the chagrin of the executives at the cable service companies who have watched this exodus. In addition to those who switched from cable to satellite, there are millions more who were never able to have cable access to programming because they lived in rural areas.

There is no doubt that television has been providing people with endless hours of entertainment since it was first introduced commercially in the 1940s. As television caught on and became popular, the number of shows expanded continually in order to satisfy the needs of viewers to be entertained in the comfort of their own homes. Today, the direct TV satellite services have come to be the most popular way for people to enjoy the shows they most want to watch at home.